BELOIT — Could it be that our own tiny section of the Midwest is more tolerant than the East Coast or the middle South?

Battles rage over mosque locations and expansions across the country, including Tennessee and New York. But a Rockford, Ill., mosque has been going forward with expansion plans without community opposition, and a Beloit College interfaith group today is hosting a showing of “Abraham’s Children,” a film about the Muslim faith. (read more . . .)